broomweed

Questions about broomweed

What does broomweed mean?

broomweed means "annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers".

How many syllables are in broomweed?

broomweed has 2 syllables and divides as broom-weed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for broomweed?

Close synonyms include broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is broomweed a common word?

broomweed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.